![]() Young proves the real crime is the way this poor woman has been misrepresented by balladeers and historians all these years. The laws of that time would not allow her to take the stand and explain what happened. ![]() ![]() Abused by her husband, Frankie killed in self defense. As a college student, he was astounded to learn that most of what he had been told was actually false. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. ![]() Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. ![]()
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